With the start of the nineties, alternative rock was beginning to take the place of synthpop in the heart of the mainstream. With Violator, however, Depeche Mode managed to reconcile the two and incidentally capitalize on their timing, popularizing (and arguably helping to invent) a new genre: new wave. Like a large majority of dance…

Coming off of the recent success of their hard rock-anthem album, War, and the experimental, The Unforgettable Fire, the Irish rock band U2 took yet another step in a different direction with The Joshua Tree; producing an edgy rock album while purposely confining themselves to conventional song structures. U2 began with heavy influences from post-punk…

Let’s start with a quick look at the world of quantum physics shall we…Lifting liberally from Wikipedia, we can see that the Casimir can be described as thus: “The typical example is of two uncharged metallic plates in a vacuum, placed a few nanometers apart. In a classical description, the lack of an external field…

Grunge rock was an integral part of the early 1990s rock landscape and as with any genre there are always a few bands that stand out above the rest, oftentimes shaping and defining the genre. In the case of grunge rock, Alice in Chains was a cornerstone of the genre and their album Dirt remains…

The Smiths came busting out of Manchester, England in 1982 when singer Morrissey and guitarist Johnny Marr came together and formed a group. The band added Mike Joyce on drums and bass player Andy Rourke (after a few short-lived band members left). The band was dubbed The Smiths because it was the most ordinary name…